The funding for the Shoalhaven River bridge has only just been announced and Kiama MP Gareth Ward is already eyeing off the next roads project.
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The state government will match the federal government’s $1.5 million funding commitment for a new four-lane bridge.
Mr Ward said he expected the bridge project to go to tender in the first half of next year after which time he will have a clearer indication of when the bridge will be finished.
“Once we’ve engaged a successful tenderer for design and construction of the bridge, then we’ll have a better idea of how long it will take,” Mr Ward said.
The Kiama MP was now looking at a project called the east Nowra sub-arterial, which would take traffic off the bridge behind Stockland Nowra shopping centre and link up with Greenwell Point Road.
“Even though it is separate from the bridge I think that project needs to be the next project,” he said.
“With traffic moving into Greenwell Point Road you effectively have a Nowra bypass. That would make an enormous difference to traffic congestion in the town, which has been an issue that people have raised in spire of this new bridge.”
Glen Humphries
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
